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New advances in steel nanoparticles may lead to cars that are lighter (and thus faster and more fuel efficient) than those made with conventional materials, but just as safe in a crash.

Recently, the Pivot Conference team set out to learn more about the state of social advertising and the future ahead by conducting an industry survey of 230 brand managers, executives, and marketing professionals. We will release the full report during the week of July 25th. Not all of the insights we learned will make it into the final report

With the success of Google+, the company must eventually decide what to do with Buzz and Orkut--either shut them down and port their users, or risk creating a fragmented social ecosystem. After taking several big swings (and whiffs) at social, Google has finally cracked a line drive with Google+

Mobile applications can be one of the best ways to keep your consumers engaged with your brand as they are on the move. But first you have to decide whether or not you actually need it. Heres how to make that decision

As the elderly become more tech-savvy, there are new apps and devices to help them lead better lives. A new device from Intel and GE is designed to connect seniors to each other--and to their caregivers. Social isolation in senior citizens is all too common

Apple's destined to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.

Kauffman Foundation analysis shows even successful small businesses aren't adding jobs at the rates they did in previous decades. New businesses are starting smaller, surviving less often, and creating fewer jobs even when they thrive, according to new research. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s analysis of Labor Department and U.S

Renting with Airbnb, RIM layoffs, Facebook iPad app revealed, and more.

This and other breaking news, updated throughout the day by Fast Company's editors. RIM Ditches Over One In Ten Staff .

Dermot McCormack's led a digital turnaround that's put MTV on the top of the online heap as the web's most visited music destination.

Commerce goes on at an evening market, thanks to a solar-lighting initiative that helps private companies do business in sub-Saharan Africa. | Photograph courtesy of Lighting Africa An innovative program aims to light up off-the-grid Africa by boosting supply and demand for portable solar lamps. FOR NEARLY 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, sundown means living, working, and studying by flickering candlelight or polluting kerosene lamps

Professionally edited new media feeds kept concerned citizens informed, without having to sift through an unfiltered global reaction. This past year, social media replaced traditional news outlets as an unrivaled source of information for at least a few era-defining stories: Twitter broke the Osama Bin Laden story and YouTube became the window into the Arab Spring .

Gary Hoover is an entrepreneur, writer, speaker and educator. He is the founder of BOOKSTOP and Hoovers, Inc. This is part two of my article series with Gary

Your iPhone can make calls (sort of) and check your email, sure, but new apps are being developed that will allow you to monitor your own health with just your phone. The iPhone is good for more than just playing Angry Birds and making on-the-fly Twitter updates

Some are calling him the next Tony Robbins.